An update during Covid-19
It’s been a while since I posted any new information on this site. Since then
AMD announced RDNA2-powered GPUs, RIP number of stocks,
Apple released M1-powered Macs,
ARM shared details of Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 based designs,
AV1-based HW decoders are released in latest Nvidia, Intel and Exynos-based products,
AV1 and AVIF support has been added to Android 12,
Flash player reached End-of-Life
Source code of BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine got reverse engineered,
Nuvia got acquired by Qualcomm,
Nvidia announced Ampere architecture and consumer GPUs. Good luck finding at MSRP though!
Safari enabled WebP, VP9, and HTTP/3,
Interesting papers or links:
Honest Security v 1.0: A guide to endpoint security and device management
Image “Cloaking” against facial recognition
Lyra: A New Very Low-Bitrate Codec for Speech Compression
NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Program Enters ‘Selection Round’